US Patent Issued to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems on Aug. 5 for "Systems, devices, and methods for grasping by multi-purpose robots" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,541, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Systems, devices, and methods for grasping by multi-purpose robots" was invented by Suzanne Gildert (Vancouver, Canada), Olivia Norton (North Vancouver, Canada) and Geordie Rose (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for training and operating (semi-)autonomous robots to complete multiple different work objectives are described. A robot control system stores a library of reusable work primitives each corresponding to a respective basic sub-task or sub-action that the robot is operative to autonomously...